Posts Tagged ‘Africa Food Crisis’
Business as (Un)usual
When the small puddle jumper plane landed on its rinky-dink airstrip, I came to grips with the fact that I was face to face with one of the world’s oldest, most isolated, and yet most intact cultures.
Read MoreKenya Update: On the Horizon of Hope in Turkana
By Christina KlinepeterWorld Relief VP of Marketing With millions of people on the brink of starvation, Africa is facing the largest food crisis since 1945. While antecedents to the people’s hunger vary based on their specific context and location, one of the contributing factors to the hunger in Kenya’s northern part of Turkana county has…
Read MoreThe Oven of the World — Food Crisis in Turkana North
It is hard to imagine a more isolated, inaccessible or hostile terrain than Turkana North, right up on the Kenyan border with Ethiopia, where World Relief is the only international NGOs to have a permanent presence in many parts of the region. “The oven of the world—even the stones on the ground are blackened by…
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